An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods Applications to Physical Systems: Part II (Introduction to Computer Simulation)

Book Description

This second edition of G. Winkler's successful book on random field approaches to image analysis, related Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, and statistical inference with emphasis on Bayesian image analysis concentrates more on general principles and models and less on details of concrete applications. Addressed to students and scientists from mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, and computer science, it will serve as an introduction to the mathematical aspects rather than a survey. Basically no prior knowledge of mathematics or statistics is required.
The second edition is in many parts completely rewritten and improved, and most figures are new. The topics of exact sampling and global optimization of likelihood functions have been added. This second edition comes with a CD-ROM by F. Friedrich,containing a host of (live) illustrations for each chapter. In an interactive environment, readers can perform their own experiments to consolidate the subject.

Customer Reviews:

a bible book to learn Gibbs sampler and simulated annealing.......2000-07-12

This is absolute a bible book for any person who want to learn Gibbs sampler and simulated annealing seriously. The format of this book, though full of mathematical equations, is very self-evident and concise. Nothing is missing and nothing is redundent. It is an enjoyable journey to follow the logic and principle in this book, with all your attention in. There are full of in-depth discussion in all aspect of the Gibbs sampler, simulated annealing, from the visiting scheme to cooling schedule, and parallel algorithms. The references are excellent too. The author seems to have read all publications till 1995 about this topic and give an excellent detailed and in-depth survey in his book. At the end of your reading, you would have love the mathematical form the author used. Without these tools, many discussions in this book will be just impossible and groundless. I personally have read this book for several times.

Image Processing II: Mathematical Methods Algorithms and Applications

Average customer rating:

Image Processing II: Mathematical Methods Algorithms and Applications

Manufacturer: Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Graphic Design | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books

General | Software | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Mathematical Analysis | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books

Applied | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1898563616

Image Processing III: Mathematical Methods, Algorithms & Applications

Average customer rating:

Image Processing III: Mathematical Methods, Algorithms & Applications
J. M. Blackledge , Martin J. Turner , Edited by Jonathan M. Blackledge , and Michael Rycroft
Manufacturer: Albion/Horwood Publishing Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Programming | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books

General | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books

General | Computer Science | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books

General & Reference | Technology | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1898563721

Book Description

In this account of the world research delivered at the Image Processing Conference held in 2000 at De Montfort University, authorities from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Georgia, South Africa, Singapore, United States, and Australia focus on the best practices in hardware, software, and advanced imaging systems, with industrial and scientific applications, digital communications, remote sensing, astrophysics, pattern recognition, medical technology, telecommunication, and virtual reality. Wide-ranging in scope, this authoritative resource book for research and study cites over 360 references to literature and is copiously illustrated with over 340 photographs and diagrams.

Image Processing: Mathematical Methods and Applications (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Conference Series. New Series, 61)

Average customer rating:

Image Processing: Mathematical Methods and Applications (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Conference Series. New Series, 61)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Graphic Design | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Applied | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0198511973

Book Description

The generation, storage and processing of digital images plays a fundamental role in the information technology revolution. Digital imaging processing technology has developed markedly over the last ten years and more and more information is being conveyed through the display and analysis of digital images. The way in which image data is stored and processed is fundamental to all aspects of IT. Examples include remote sensing using the new generation of digital satellites which carry a range of different sensors that, when coupled with suitable image processing technology, can provide a wealth of information to geologists, geographers and atmospheric physicists used in everything from the exploration of oil and other natural resources to environmental monitoring and agricultural development in the Third World. Other examples include the use of image processing in medical imaging for use in diagnosis using conventional X-ray Computed Tomography to research into the behaviour of the human brain using real time Magnetic Resonance Imaging. This book consists of twenty-one papers which collectively cover a broad range of image processing problems and the way on which solutions to these problems are used in different area of sciences and technology. The papers present details of the way in which computers of varying processing power can be programmed to store image efficiently, resolve features and patterns in an image that are either time consuming or impossible for human interpreters and develop machines that can `see', like humans. The book covers a wide range of applications which include the use of lasers for studying the dynamic behaviour of mechanical components, overviews of image processing in remote sensing and medical imaging and the application of a new form of geometry (fractal geometry) for rcognizing patterns which is not possible with conventional data processing. The book will be of value to any engineer, scientists and technologist who wants to acquire information on current research issues in image processing by reading a set of papers prepared by some of the world's leading specialists.

An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods: Applications to Physical Systems : Part I (Introduction to Computer Simulation)

Average customer rating:

Pretty good introductory book
very good introductory computational physics book
Makes Physics a pleasure

An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods: Applications to Physical Systems : Part I (Introduction to Computer Simulation)
Harvey Gould , and Jan Tobochnik
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books

General | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

Open Source Physics: A User's Guide with Examples (3rd Edition)
Computational Physics (2nd Edition)
A First Course in Computational Physics and Object-Oriented Programming with C++
An Introduction to Computational Physics
Computational Physics

ASIN: 0201165031

Customer Reviews:

Pretty good introductory book.......2005-10-19

Good introductory book on Computational Physics.
Projects proposed cover different difficulties so it can be used for college students at all levels.Concepts are well explainded. Introduces areas including linear and nonlinear systems, normal modes and waves, and electrodynamics. This second edition offers expanded material on chaos, complexity, and quantum mechanics, programs with more use of graphics, and appendices on Fortran and C.

very good introductory computational physics book.......2005-04-28

This was my first comp. physics book and it was easy and
very instructive. I can assure your money is well spent.
If you find this book too easy, then you should move on to
Thijssen's Computational Physics which is intended for the
`graduate' level readers.
Only 4 stars (not 5) because I don't think that the codes
provided in the book are that useful. Everyone has different
coding style. What really matters is the physical concepts and
not the numerical receipes.

Makes Physics a pleasure.......2004-04-19

Excellent, outstanding book for clarity, elegance, writing style and level of detail. This book won't leave you alone on the intricacies of marrying physics and computer programming and will make your programming activity more intereesting if you are more of a programmer and you physical studies more rewarding and less
"pen-and-paperlike" if you are an aspiring physicist. In fact I highly recommend this book to anyone that has an interest in how nature works and in playing with computers. The extreme clarity of this book makes it accessible to junior colege students and even to advanced, motivated high school students or for self study. I would have preferred to see the example code in the book
in C or better C++ but using BASIC has the advantage of making the book more esy to read and is just sligtly annoying for the
C++ or Java programmer. ( Are there any other kind of real programmers? ;) Just make sure you master your language enough to make calculations, use functions, and are able to produce at least some basic graphics (using C++ and openGL or DirectX would rock). Judge by yourself, but I would buy without a thought a book whose first chapter is on the "Coffe Cooling Problem".

Mathematical Methods in Computer Aided Geometric Design II

Average customer rating:

Mathematical Methods in Computer Aided Geometric Design II
Tom Lyche
Manufacturer: Academic Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Graphic Design | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0124605109

Mathematical Models for Registration and Applications to Medical Imaging (Mathematics in Industry / The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry)

Average customer rating:

Mathematical Models for Registration and Applications to Medical Imaging (Mathematics in Industry / The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry)

Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Graphic Design | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Medicine | Subjects | Books

All Amazon Upgrade | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Computers & Internet | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Engineering | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Medicine | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Professional & Technical | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Science | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books
ASIN: 3540250298

Customer Reviews:

Tres belle y magnifique!.......2005-11-26

This was a beautifully written and tragic story of the love between a man and a sadly fated courtesan. This novel is quite a page turner, and it's very emotional as well. However, it didn't make me cry or feel deeply sorry for the characters at the end, just a bit sad. This is a nice classic, but it's not a deeply significant classic to read, nor is it one where you will get some deep, insight lessons from. If you are into romance, drama, and tragedy, then this book is for you. Just don't expect it to change your life or anything.

Trés romantique!.......2005-05-09

This book is a classic in the area of romance. The translation is quite good, and full of emotion. The movie versions (and there are many) will never compare to the novel. If you like to cry over lost love, this is the book for you.

Beautiful love story.......2005-05-02

A touching and passionate story about love, loss and jealousy. I read it twice: once as a teenager and again in my mid-twenties. I couldn't put it down both times - I read through the night and cried for the last 60 pages.

la dame aux camellias.......2003-02-20

Near the end, when she was coughing blood and had a fever, Marie Duplessis sat in her usual box at the Varietes for the last time, said a Paris columnist, like something beautiful, he reported later, something white and spectral. For the last time the imagined Marguerite Gautier had dragged her white face and camellias to the opera. After Alphonsine was buried in Montmartre, there took place the famous sale auction of her many possesions, furniture, hangings, dresses, objects d'art bibelots and bijoutterie. Literature is not a trusty reproduction of reality and like in most roman-a-clef the original yarn is more vivid and interesting than the fabricated version concocted by an author. This is no exception. Before Verdi's Violetta and Dumas young's Marguerite, there lived briefly and died a mislead soul of such unusual qualities, she was destined to cast a tall artistic shadow. "La dame aux camellias" are the novel (1848) and play (1852) by the son of Alexander Dumas, France's literary lion. The young Dumas, while growing, somewhat dissolute, was one of the many lovers of the fascinating courtesan who was Paris' arbiter of elegance, perennial in the gazettes, carrying camellias, always. An exquisitely enchanting maiden, who rented her love, thus making and spending millions. Duplessis was notorious for her extravagance, and, conveniently, the spell she cast on rich men. She was a fixture at theaters and gaming houses. A madly desired Marie Duplessis could never have imagined she would one day be the muse of Sarah Bernhardt Pola Negri, Eleonora Duse and Greta Garbo. 'La dame aux camellias" the novel and play both became success-de-scandale, both finding an instant and feverish acclaim. This old Romantic novel is based on the true story of Alphonsine Plessis, an abnormally pretty farmer, who abused by her brutal father, runs off to Paris and becomes a grisette. It's believed Plessis began selling his daughter at the age of twelve. There, in Paris, quite effortlessly, she becomes a ravishing courtesan, a swan, before dying of consumption at the age of 23. In the real biography Marie Duplessis (in her climb Alphonsine changed her name) is always juggling lovers (and debts) some, more fabulously wealthy than others. She also finds time for handsome and brilliant young men of fashion, despite their monetary limitation, and soon we learn she gives up Dumas for Frans Liszt (can you imagine the cinematic possibilities here?) Later, as the shadow of death grew near, Duplessis marries a faithful titled paramour, becoming a countess thus adding coronets to her plate. Now in the outs with Liszt (trust me, I can't go into everything but the life of the real heroine is very interesting)and while young Dumas (the original Armand Duval) travels with his father (in reality having perhaps forgotten Plessis, or Duplessis, Gautier or Valery, it's a bit confusing) the lady of the camellias dies alone of tuberculosis, in her dismantling, erstwhile courtly apartment. In this sad note ends the story of Alphonsine, also Verdi's opera, Garbo's movie and Dumas young's novel and play. The novel, a sometimes mistreated literary treasure that has seen print since the days of Louis Napoleon. Some dismiss it, some find it a bridge between the Romantics and the new realism of Flaubert. A curiously intimate young love account ending in a heart-crushing pathos. My regret is not seeing Duse or Eva LeGallienne in the role. See, I think this story would make a great modern movie. Unless you cry at dog-fights and are innately sentimental, don't pick up this book. If you like it, go on to read Abbe Provost's 'Manon Lescaut'. I could have never imagined I would one day get to grade 'La dame aux camellias', but here it is, you guessed it, I give it five stars.

A classic love story.......2002-07-16

If Moulin Rouge is not based upon Camille, I'll eat my hat. The plots are practically the same. Marguerite is a independent, beautiful courtesan with a heart of gold. The young Armand Duval falls in love with her. But as much as they truly love each other, their love can never be because of society. Marguerite is "beneath" Armand and therefore their love is unacceptable. Told mostly from Armand's point of view, you get very involved with the characters.

The only real difference between Camille and Moulin Rogue is Moulin Rogue is more emotionally gratifying as Satine gets to die in her lover's arms where as poor Marguerite does not. And no, I did not just give away the book because you know what happens at the end at the beginning (rather like in Moulin Rouge!) This is a wonderful book for a rainy day. Just make sure you keep the tissues close by. You will need them.

By the way, if you like this book, try Manon Lescaut. Manon is even given as a gift from Armand to Marguerite in the novel.

... Camille,: The lady of the camellias,
Average customer rating:
... Camille,: The lady of the camellias,
Alexandre Dumas
Manufacturer: S. French, incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

French | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B00085RX4S

Camille: The Lady of the Camellias
Average customer rating:
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias
Alexandre Dumas
Manufacturer: Samuel French, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0573606722

Average customer rating:
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias
Alexandre (translated by Henriette Metcalf) Dumas Fils
Manufacturer: Samuel French
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WLUUT8

Average customer rating:
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias (Signet Classics)
Alexandre Dumas , and fils
Manufacturer: Signet Classics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
Literary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
Dumas, Alexandre | ( D ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
French | Foreign Language Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
All French Books | French | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 0451519337

The Lady with the Camellias (Camille)
Average customer rating:
The Lady with the Camellias (Camille)
Alexandre, Illustrated by Lynch, Albert Dumas Fils
Manufacturer: Paris: Societe Des Beaux-Arts, 1905
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KP3IJ0

Average customer rating:
The lady with the camellias (Camille) (Comedie d'amour series)
Alexandre Dumas
Manufacturer: Soc. des beaux-arts
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Dumas, Alexandre | ( D ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0008BUDQM

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books